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Bold plans for huge classic bike presence at this year’s Coventry Motofest, June 3 and 4
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Organisers at Coventry Motofest have partnered with the Coventry Business Improvement District (BID) – the body that represents the city’s retailers – in a new initiative designed to deliver the biggest classic vehicle offering ever staged at the festival. In ambitious plans to create a ‘show within a show’, the new Coventry BID Classic is…
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Launch report: Yamaha SCR950
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Yamaha’s SCR950 is hampered by its marketing. Described as being: “Inspired by the street scramblers of the 1960s,” many journalists’ default position will be to thrust it straight into a pigeon-hole already swollen with the likes of Ducati’s Scrambler, Triumph’s Street Scrambler and BMW’s R-nine-T Scrambler. I’d consider the XSR700 to have more potential to…
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2017 YZF-R6 coming in at just under £11k…
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Yamaha has just announced the UK price and vital statistics of its awesome new 2017 YZF-R6 – and with first shipments due on British shores in April, the eagerly anticipated production version of the three-time World Supersport Championship winning machine is nearly here… The suggested retail price for the UK is £10,999 – which although a…
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KTM CONFIRMS production, fuel-injected 2-stroke enduro bikes being launched this MAY!
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The KTM 250 EXC TPI and KTM 300 EXC TPI models will be introduced to the market as part of the model year 2018 line-up. KTM has said that it will unveil the world’s first production fuel injection 2-stroke Enduro bikes at an official launch in just two months. We’ve told you many times before that KTM’s…
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HD reboot for cult gaming classic ‘Full Throttle’
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The iconic 1996 biker-based adventure game Full Throttle is finally getting its long-awaited remaster for PC, PS4 and Playstation Vita, this April. Released by LucasArts in 1995, ‘Full Throttle’ is a classic point and click adventure game telling the story of biker Ben Throttle, leader of the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale…
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Now it’s Guy Martin: Education centre builder!
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Over 50 local politicians, business leaders and development officers met with representatives of Guy Martin this week after he revealed plans for an educational centre and residential park north of Lincoln. At the closed-doors meeting on Monday, March 6 at Lincolnshire County Council, involving Guy Martin’s agent and a Channel 4 production company, attendees heard about Guy’s latest venture: the…
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Limited Edition Jack Daniel’s Chieftain to go on sale – for just under £34,000!
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There’s only 100 going on sale around the world, 10 are coming to Europe and just one will make it to the UK and if you want it then it’ll cost you a shade under £34,000! Indian Motorcycle has just announced that it is selling 100 Limited Edition Jack Daniel’s Chieftain bikes with 10 of…
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New colours available for the SHARK Helmets Spartan Carbon
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Following the launch of its brand-new Spartan Carbon last year, SHARK Helmets has now launched 11 new colours on the state-of-the-art model – and they are available in UK dealers now. The Spartan has been developed using the latest reverse engineering and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology recently developed on other top-end SHARK models. Everything…
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UK’s first Plug-In motorcyclist gets Government subsidy-backed bike!
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The first electric motorcycle to be bought with the new ‘plug in’ subsidy will be on the road from today (March 1st). The dealer, 21st Moto in Swanley, Kent, confirmed that 48-year-old Fred Murphy from Redhill in Surrey is the first customer in the UK to benefit from the subsidy, introduced by the Government’s Office for…
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Michael Dunlop to race new GSX-R1000 at the Isle of Man
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Michael Dunlop is set to race the all-new GSX-R1000 in 2017, the 13-time Isle of Man TT winner signing for the new-look Bennetts Suzuki team for the forthcoming season. Dunlop will race the new machine at the North West 200 in May, before competing at the all-important Isle of Man TT races in June, as…
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